Center for Constitutional Rights Launches Case Seeking US Knowledge and Role in Deadly Israeli Attack on Humanitarian Flotilla to Gaza

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will host a press conference this Tuesday on the filing of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that morning seeking documents the government has refused to provide relating to the United States' knowledge and role in the deadly May 31, 2010 attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla by Israeli commandos. Among the dead was 19-year old U.S. citizen Furkan Dogan, who was shot five times— twice in the head, once in the back, in the left leg and in the foot as he was filming on his video camera during the 4:00 a.m. raid.

When:  12:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Where: Lisagor Room, the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C.

Who:

Professor Ahmet Dogan, father of U.S. citizen Furkan Dogan who was killed on the Mavi Marmara aid ship to Gaza

Katherine Gallagher, Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights

Jessica Lee, University of Virginia International Human Rights Law Clinic

Ann Wright, former U.S. Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official who was a passenger on the May 2010 flotilla

The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. Visit www.ccrjustice.org. Follow @theCCR.

CONTACT:  Jen Nessel, 212.614.6449, [email protected]; David Lerner, Riptide Communications, 212.260.5000

SOURCE Center for Constitutional Rights